Improved railway-car axle



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ROBERT DUTCH, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW,JERSEY.

Lem/rs Patent No. 92,592,A dated July 13, 1869.

IMPROVED RAILWAY-CAR AXLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it knownthat I, ROBERT DUTCH, of Jersey City, county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, hav.e iuveuted a new and useful Improvement in Journals for Railroad-Trucks; and do hereby 'declare that the following is a general description-thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings', making part of this specification, of which- Figure 1 is a planv or top view; p

-Figure 2, a longitudinal section of same; and

A Figure 3, aview of a section of the journal, as removed from its socket or case. v,

lhe nature of my invention consists in the construction and .arrangement of the divided axles, each withl two'separat'ed flanges, in combination with couplingtubes, having enclosing-heads, substantially as hereinafter set forth, for the purpose of enabling the outer truck-wheels of a car or engine to perform a greater, number of revolutions than the inner truck-wheels, when travelling on a railroad-curve, thereby regulating the centrifugal force of an engine and train of cars while in rapid transit on the rails.

In the drawings- A indicates the journal, or axle of a railroad-truck, formed in two sections, B B, and having feet c c, which abut against each other, and collars, or shoulders-d d, which abut against the outer ends of their enclosingcase, wlle the shafts e e of the journal extend through said case, (see iig. 2,) for reception of the truck-wheels.

F is the socket, or case of the journal, made in two sections g g, and `having flanges h h, by means of which thesocket-sections are `firmly secured and bolted together by bolts 4T fi', Sac.; and'k k are stops Which-confine the journal in its enclosing-case, and against which the collars d d ofthe journal rest.

The ilanges of the socket-case may contain male and female screws, for connecting the socket-sections in addition to the bolts, for further security, if desired.

The socket, or case F is sustained -in bearings a1- tached to the railroad-truck, and revolves within said .bearings,`while the journal A, carrying the truck- 

